From the Heart! Stable Owner Conor McHugh "STABLE CAN'T STAY OPEN" Horse Carriage BAN Bill 1/22/16
January 28, 2016
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5:30Now PlayingFrom the Heart! Stable Owner Conor McHugh "STABLE CAN'T STAY OPEN" Horse Carriage BAN Bill 1/22/16
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as posted by the channel"My name is Conor McHugh. I am the manager of Clinton Park Stables, which is the largest stable servicing our business. I am also a carriage driver and a carriage owner. And I want to thank the council people who have stood with us.
[Chairperson Rodriguez: Are you coming to speak on behalf of the Teamsters?]
Yes. I want to thank the council people who have stood with us in the past 6 years in the face of insults and ridicule, on what basically amounted to trumped up charges. That’s what we’re here on today: trumped up charges. We have done nothing wrong. Our horse are in good health and good shape. Many of you council people as well as lots of New Yorkers have been to visit our stables, and they see nothing wrong. We have had veterinarians from all over this country come to visit our stables, and they’ve found nothing wrong.
We are not against the idea of a stable in Central Park. However we are against the timeline. The idea that my stable will be reduced by 39 horses, in a building that’s mortgaged, just like any other business in this city, and that somehow I am going to be able to keep that stable open, for an indefinite period of time while we wait for the Central Park stable to get open, is just ludicrous. It’s just impossible to see how this can happen, and that’s not only my stable, that’s the other stables that service the industry.
So, it’s very easy to fix this. We can keep the horses that we have. They have good homes, in good conditions and they are under scrutiny from the Health Department with their health certificates and all of their other requirements. And they can still do the job that they can do. There is no reason to reduce the shifts. Each carriage now can do two shifts, and has two horses to do it, and a spare horse to come in and help out whenever they need it. That can all stay in place until the stable in the park is ready. The only reason to reduce numbers [of horses] is that we can’t fit them all into the expected stable in Central Park. We have homes and room for them now. So let’s keep them there until the day comes and then we will deal with the size of the stable in Central Park.
So I want to thank you guys for listening to me, and I appreciate it."
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